In case you missed it, I challenged myself:
http://extra-toe.blogspot.com/2011/01/who-you-calling-addicted.html
I officially have 11 days left and I'm sitting here at 11:30am watching a movie on netflix with my wife. This has been the common theme of my life for the last week or more, well maybe not watching movies at 11:30am but I haven't been abstaining from the tech/media influences until 5pm.
At first I was down on myself, but I realized that the heart of my goal, was to quit doing one thing so I could have more time for something else. I wanted to write more. And well I've written more. One of my stories that I started couples years ago, that has been brewing in my brain for over 7 years, sat around 20k words for two years now. After this last week and the little bit I did the week before, its up to 30k words. I tapped out 7k words last monday through friday. Thats an average of 1k a day and if I did that everyweek I could have two full length novels done by years end. So for the new month resolution I'm shooting for 1k a day. Weekends and days homes are the hardest with distractions and chores, but I have made a small change already, and now I'm ready to make another small change that will hopefully make a big difference in the future.
I have another goal set for the beginning of March already, and hopefully the weather cooperates.
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